وَأَمَّا ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓا۟ أَفَلَمْ تَكُنْ ءَايَـٰتِى تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فَٱسْتَكْبَرْتُمْ وَكُنتُمْ قَوْمًا مُّجْرِمِينَ
Wa ammal lazeena kafarooo afalam takun Aayaatee tutlaa 'alaikum fastakbartum wa kuntum qawmam mujrimeen
But as for those who denied, it will be said: "Were my signs not recited to you? Yet you grew arrogant and became a guilty people."
Three verses earlier every community was gathered on its knees, and here the division that follows reaches its second group, set against the single line of welcome given to the first. The charge rests on access, since the signs were recited to them aloud, and the response it names is istikbār, making oneself great. Kuntum qawman mujrimīn uses a past tense of being, so the guilt describes a settled character they had grown into, shared as a people.